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Methodology
Listen to an explanation of our methodology.
- Go for English is incremental: The program starts with very basic concepts and vocabulary: fruit, colors and numbers, and step by step weaves these into a web of language that develops natural fluency. New words and concepts are added slowly and constantly reviewed. Important concepts are developed more fully.
- Go for English is immersive: Unlike some language learning programs, Go for English does not rely on translation, but rather it uses visual and practical context clues to teach meaning. This is similar to how children learn a language.
- Go for English is thematic: Each lesson works off of a topic of activity as a way of helping you make connections between and among the different parts.
- Go for English is fun to use: Language learning doesn’t need to be boring. We’ve tried to make it fun adding games, activities and humor. If you’re relaxed when you’re learning, then you will learn faster.
- Go for English is for living in America: Unlike other programs that focus on learning for tourists and travel, Go for English is designed to help adapt to American life and culture.
About the Author
Andrew Dias, known by most of his students as Mr. Dias, has been an educator for more than thirty years. He has worked in the United States, Mexico and North Africa. He taught English as a foreign language to Middle and High School students in Mexico for eight years, where he developed and used his own instructional materials, which have become the foundation for the Go for English program. He lived in Morocco (North Africa) for nine years where he worked as the principal of what was then a new American school. There he helped develop a trilingual program where students from Pre-School through High School learn in English, French and Arabic. His specialty is language acquisition. He brings his many years of experience to the Go for English program.
Content of Each Unit in Go for English
Unit One: Fruit and Vegetables
- Fruit and colors
- Position & use of adjectives
- Answering what and where
- Introductions, greetings and goodbyes
- Expressing ignorance
- Coordinating conjunctions: and, but, or
- Making a request
- Asking a person's place of origin
- Using "There is…" & "There are…"
- Meeting someone new
- Introducing vegetables
- Collective nouns
- The demonstrative pronouns & adjectives
- Negative commands
- Reading the hour
- The subjective personal pronouns
- Expressing how you feel
- Offering food or drink
- Am, is, are
- Asking if there's a problem
- Asking a person their age
- Various beverages
- At a restaurant
- Verbs having direct objects
- Contraction practice
- Flavors and other adjectives
Unit Two: What's Cooking?
- Introducing the verb: to have
- Counting money
- Asking and giving prices
- Using garden tools
- American coins
- First fractions
- A couple of… several… many…
- A thinking game
- The present participle
- The present progressive tense
- Appliances, utensils & storage
- Short and long answers
- Looking at vacation photos
- Getting help at the deli
- Adding fractions
- The date with a bit of U.S. history
- The ordinal numbers
- January through December
- Giving your date of birth
- Common meal times
- Common American food
- Categorizing verbs
- Putting events in logical sequence
- Making apple pie
- The sounds of the English language
- Pronunciation practice
Upcoming Units 3 & 4 themes will include: shopping/clothing/school/work/renting a place to live/household repairs/the weather/intro to US history, and much more. Students will develop a further understanding of English grammar.